abatically:


Let me ask u one more question Mr op.

Is disconnecting the check engine light also part of ur tropicalization? U realize thermostat removal will trigger the check engine light in some cars. So what do u do about that, do u also yank off the check engine light? Or are u one of those that says check engine light doesn't mean anything?

if he tries dat in a peugeot 407 he will regret the day he bought a car

Op ur knowledge about tropicalization is half baked, not complete.

Nigeria is so HOT and we all need to embrace the act of tropicalization. If u really wanna tropoxalize ur car, then u have to remove the thermostat, let ur fans spin non stop, change to double cell radiator, remove ur catalytic converter because it is not needed. Then remove all ur 02 sensors (both upstream and downstream). Then disconnect ur idle air control valve, if possible convert to caburator. Oh u also need to remove that oyinbo tyres because they are not meant for our weather. Don't mind all those car manufacturers, they don't know what they are doing. If they reccomend 195/55/r15, u have to change it to 225/70/r18. And if they recommend 33psi tyre pressure, u have to change to 60psi because our road is harsh.

And don't forget to always use 20w50 motor oil. Those oyinbo dey reccomend 5w20, shey dem no know say our weather is too hot? How can we use that light oil in this hot weather? It won't work.

Now that is some BAD A$S TROPICALIZATION.

Where is OGA TITUS tonychristopher I asked you for your source, you were forming james bond, see what you have don't to your self? Your moniker is now synonymous with a road side under the mango tree mechanics mentality. Ogawisdom you were also encouraging him to commit sacrilege in car talk ok o! I hope you have backed out before this thread reach front page?
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greenhulk:
Op ur knowledge about tropicalization is half baked, not complete.

Nigeria is so HOT and we all need to embrace the act of tropicalization. If u really wanna tropoxalize ur car, then u have to remove the thermostat, let ur fans spin non stop, change to double cell radiator, remove ur catalytic converter because it is not needed. Then remove all ur 02 sensors (both upstream and downstream). Then disconnect ur idle air control valve, if possible convert to caburator. Oh u also need to remove that oyinbo tyres because they are not meant for our weather. Don't mind all those car manufacturers, they don't know what they are doing. If they reccomend 195/55/r15, u have to change it to 225/70/r18. And if they recommend 33psi tyre pressure, u have to change to 60psi because our road is harsh.

And don't forget to always use 20w50 motor oil. Those oyinbo dey reccomend 5w20, shey dem no know say our weather is too hot? How can we use that light oil in this hot weather? It won't work.

Now that is some BAD A$S TROPICALIZATION.

I hope people realise this is sarcastic, but yep there is no arguing with people who refuse to learn, so tropicalise away, afterall the whole industry that designed and built the car has less knowledge than baba Kasali, its your money you are wasting

greenhulk:
Op ur knowledge about tropicalization is half baked, not complete.

Nigeria is so HOT and we all need to embrace the act of tropicalization. If u really wanna tropoxalize ur car, then u have to remove the thermostat, let ur fans spin non stop, change to double cell radiator, remove ur catalytic converter because it is not needed. Then remove all ur 02 sensors (both upstream and downstream). Then disconnect ur idle air control valve, if possible convert to caburator. Oh u also need to remove that oyinbo tyres because they are not meant for our weather. Don't mind all those car manufacturers, they don't know what they are doing. If they reccomend 195/55/r15, u have to change it to 225/70/r18. And if they recommend 33psi tyre pressure, u have to change to 60psi because our road is harsh.

And don't forget to always use 20w50 motor oil. Those oyinbo dey reccomend 5w20, shey dem no know say our weather is too hot? How can we use that light oil in this hot weather? It won't work.

Now that is some BAD A$S TROPICALIZATION.

and this is what I call full tropicalization!!! 100% efficient ....

GAZZUZZ now we all see that kazeem( tonychristopher ) is now nairaland.

Now I understand, if you felt i offended your sensibilities in religion, I apologize, but I thought islam section was for islam peopl, how did i got entrance but that is ok, we dont have to take everything we read online serious...some people are here to learn and catch fun not to make enemies and not to let go of some post....I dont fight in name of religion, I feel that God can handle his fight be it Allah or God...that is by the way


Oh, everybody keeps saying source, I will give source but to be frank with you...my car has never overheated since i tropicalized it, yes it might not work for every car engine, some engines are less adaptable some are...just like conversion maybe manual to auto transmission or auto trasmission to manual drive../some cars can make these transmission seamless some cant...so it depends on the car you drive and how you know it

I believe that as a good driver, you should be in tune and one with your car and I did not post balderdash...just that it doesnt tally with yours doesnt make it balderdash


pls learn how to accomodate others and take criticism...never let things weigh us down...life is just once, so we live it...IT MIGHT WORK FOR SOME CARS AND PEOPLE AND if it does work(Tropicalization) for some peeps why use the term balderdash

have a blessed weekend and i must say your type is rare...seeing a woman that knows cars..how i wish my wife can be as savvy as you, or even know how to detech low level of hydraulic fluid or common meaning of dasboard lights...to be frank, i am an admirer of you


I will follow you....dont let religion get in between my admiration for you



But i know at the end of the day you cant drive a stick...but i still appreciate...have a slpendid day



Nicve one

Coldplay007:

I didn't intend to insult you... I"m a car enthusiast like most car talkers.. and what you just posted is against what we believe and preach on this section..
You don't post something this controversial without putting a source and you are still arguing illogically despite all the proves people have shown you about your nonsensical post
You need to give us a credible source or stop posting balderdash...

lol


bro that is tropicalization gone crazy or too far

pls dont tamper with tyre PSI indication but you can change the tyres from snow types to tropical tyre...oh DUNLOP aint here again and the double cell radiator thing, i dont buy it, but if the car is single fan, you can make it double fan connected directly and why removing catalytic converter b, it makes your car guzzle damn too much and it putds poisionous gas to the enviroment...you can see your car wont be converting fumes again..I NO SUPPPORT THAT ONE....

IN TERMS OF OIL...I USE ORIGINAL SEA HORSE so you find the ones that is okay for your car...PMS i should be buying premium fuel but that cant be found anywhere in Nigeria so i just buy any fuel but NEVER BLACK MARKET it tells on my injector...But i have learnt to service it with my injector cleaner..how I wish i can get a tropical paint here in Nigeria...my car body paint seems to fade after few months and I use Siekens

greenhulk:
Op ur knowledge about tropicalization is half baked, not complete.

Nigeria is so HOT and we all need to embrace the act of tropicalization. If u really wanna tropoxalize ur car, then u have to remove the thermostat, let ur fans spin non stop, change to double cell radiator, remove ur catalytic converter because it is not needed. Then remove all ur 02 sensors (both upstream and downstream). Then disconnect ur idle air control valve, if possible convert to caburator. Oh u also need to remove that oyinbo tyres because they are not meant for our weather. Don't mind all those car manufacturers, they don't know what they are doing. If they reccomend 195/55/r15, u have to change it to 225/70/r18. And if they recommend 33psi tyre pressure, u have to change to 60psi because our road is harsh.

And don't forget to always use 20w50 motor oil. Those oyinbo dey reccomend 5w20, shey dem no know say our weather is too hot? How can we use that light oil in this hot weather? It won't work.

Now that is some BAD A$S TROPICALIZATION.

To be honest with you sir, I have come to realise that 90% of mechanics in Nigeria are daft so I have learnt to get my info my self and it seems to be working bro


Google has always be my friend, I think befriending him will be great for you sir

GAZZUZZ:
Where is OGA TITUS tonychristopher I asked you for your source, you were forming james bond, see what you have don't to your self? Your moniker is now synonymous with a road side under the mango tree mechanics mentality. Ogawisdom you were also encouraging him to commit sacrilege in car talk ok o! I hope you have backed out before this thread reach front page?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2116417_image_jpeg9f360c5ab7736510df54c882e9dbf188

lol

noted

Ikenna351:


I wonder where you got the "feeling" that the only harm you are doing on that vehicle is rich running that sends excess unburnt fuel to the crankcase. You obviously have no idea what it does to your crank jounals, do you? You obvioulsy have no idea what constant running of engine at low temperature does to the cylinders and other lubricating parts of engine? Do you even know how engine works?

If you have intention of selling the vehicle in future, do humanity a favour, kindly inform the innocent buyer that you intentionally abused the vehicle mercilessly. At least, he/she will appreciate your honesty, to be prepared what awaits him/her.

What you do with your vehicle is your business. Just dont pass on the abuse or nightmare to innocent person.

Ikenna

tonychristopher:
lol


bro that is tropicalization gone crazy or too far

pls dont tamper with tyre PSI indication but you can change the tyres from snow types to tropical tyre...oh DUNLOP aint here again and the double cell radiator thing, i dont buy it, but if the car is single fan, you can make it double fan connected directly and why removing catalytic converter b, it makes your car guzzle damn too much and it putds poisionous gas to the enviroment...you can see your car wont be converting fumes again..I NO SUPPPORT THAT ONE....

IN TERMS OF OIL...I USE ORIGINAL SEA HORSE so you find the ones that is okay for your car...PMS i should be buying premium fuel but that cant be found anywhere in Nigeria so i just buy any fuel but NEVER BLACK MARKET it tells on my injector...But i have learnt to service it with my injector cleaner..how I wish i can get a tropical paint here in Nigeria...my car body paint seems to fade after few months and I use Siekens

bros,if for nothing but this original sea horse that u use for ur jap,I GIVE UP

I used to use OANDO with Oil Treatment but I found sea horse or was advised to use Sea Horse with oil treatment, which works wonderful and funny enough i change my oil once in two months and the engine runs smoothly, no noise



So why change the winning team bro

diportivo:



bros,if for nothing but this original sea horse that u use for ur jap,I GIVE UP

tonychristopher:
lol


bro that is tropicalization gone crazy or too far

pls dont tamper with tyre PSI indication but you can change the tyres from snow types to tropical tyre...oh DUNLOP aint here again and the double cell radiator thing, i dont buy it, but if the car is single fan, you can make it double fan connected directly and why removing catalytic converter b, it makes your car guzzle damn too much and it putds poisionous gas to the enviroment...you can see your car wont be converting fumes again..I NO SUPPPORT THAT ONE....

IN TERMS OF OIL...I USE ORIGINAL SEA HORSE so you find the ones that is okay for your car...PMS i should be buying premium fuel but that cant be found anywhere in Nigeria so i just buy any fuel but NEVER BLACK MARKET it tells on my injector...But i have learnt to service it with my injector cleaner..how I wish i can get a tropical paint here in Nigeria...my car body paint seems to fade after few months and I use Siekens

We are on the same page. Ur 'original seahorse' is probably 20w50. Manufacturers recommend 5w20 but it is too damn light and our weather is too damn hot, that thing will evaporate in our engine, so good to use 20w50.

Catalytic converters are for emission purpose, and we dont do emission test here, so yank it off bro.

Tokunbo cars over heat cos they are tokunbo moreover the way they are driven sometimes on bad roads affect something in the radiator

No, we cant yank it off....i am an enviromentalist bro

greenhulk:


We are on the same page. Ur 'original seahorse' is probably 20w50. Manufacturers recommend 5w20 but it is too damn light and our weather is too damn hot, that thing will evaporate in our engine, so good to use 20w50.

Catalytic converters are for emission purpose, and we dont do emission test here, so yank it off bro.

GOD BLESS YOU AND BE WITH YOU FOR SAYING THE TRUTH....

Bants:
Tokunbo cars over heat cos they are tokunbo moreover the way they are driven sometimes on bad roads affect something in the radiator

honmusa:

All your posts are pure rubbish ,where are your facts and figures to prove your points ,because you feel that the way it should be and you went ahead to ''kazeem'' your car out doesnt prove any point ,you can as well set your car on fire for all i care !!! if you are not ready to unlearn all this gibberish, stop misleading people that are willing to learn .You are indeed a tropicalising kazeem !!!

Auto Pundit to boot...

abatically:


Wrong.

A car with thermostat removed and fan running steadily but with a bad water pump will still overheat. A car with bad radiator cap will overheat even with quadruple cell radiator and quadruple fans spinning non stop.

Be fair to the guy, he is correct. Anywhere in the world any car with a bad water pump or faulty radiator will eventually overheat, I like your write up keep it up, good work

Good word. Let them know. Some parts of the states where these cars come from are hotter than certain parts of Nigeria.

These cars have been put to test by various simulations. My problem with Nigeria and our mechanics is we never create or develop stuff, but are very quick to destroy cars professionals have made. I have used all my tokunbo cars with thermostat and single cell radiators without any issues.

The truth is cars don't just overheat because of thermostat or radiators, you have fans, leaking or rusted radiators, bad radiator covers, leaking hoses, leaking coolant containers etc

abatically:


My car came from Canada, single cell radiator, thermostat intact and fans don't spin unless when required. I can guarantee u that this car will not overheat even if u take it to the Sahara. And I am almost sure that ur car will overheat before mine does.

The reason cars overheat in this country is due to laziness and negligence. Just last week my mechanic went to tow a 2004 Honda accord with a blown head gasket. The owner drove the car until the temperature got to the red zone and he didn't even notice. He drove the car until the car stopped on its own when it could no longer handle the temperature. If u ask me anyone that drives a car until it overheats and stops working is not worthy to own a car. People drive without paying attention to the temperature gauge, they put only water in their radiator because they are lazy . so they choose the easy route which is bypassing the fan, removing thermostat and installing double cell radiator. That way they will never have to keep an eye on the temperature gauge because it will barely rise.

TopHand:

Be fair to the guy, he is correct. Anywhere in the world any car with a bad water pump or faulty radiator will eventually overheat, I like your write up keep it up, good work

You mean he should chide someone for supporting wrong acts?

Tropicalization of car is absolute rubbish. OP, Africa was put into consideration when those cars were manufactured. Stop talking like Kazeem

abatically:


Wrong.

A car with thermostat removed and fan running steadily but with a bad water pump will still overheat. A car with bad radiator cap will overheat even with quadruple cell radiator and quadruple fans spinning non stop.

Please tell him again and again till he understands.

I GIFF UP

have ever asked yourself the main causes of overheating?

the main list is

1 failed thermostat stuck shut i.e it wont open to let cold coolant from radiator
2 failed water pump even when the thermostat open there is no enough force to mix the cold coolant from radiator and the hot
coolant from the engine and force the hot coolant to the radiator for cooling
3 failed temperature sensor, it wont trigger the radiator fun to run especially when stuck in traffic due to the fact that no air is being forced into the radiator grill, this process happenswhen driving eg at 15mph and above (no need for the fun to kick since its work is done by the speed of the car driving above 15mph)
4 leaking radiator
5 leaking water pump
6 ignorant of the owner not checking water levels etc
7 not reading the manual and following hearsay, from my observation some people here some thought that if the temperature gauge is at half mark its over heating due to the fact that they have seen car that has thermo stripped and constant run fan and the temperature is always on the qauter mark

operating temperature of car should be between 89 and 100 and it doesnt matter whether its in alaska, namib, kalahari, sahara, iceland, north pole

the 4 things thermo, temperature sensor, fan and radiator work together in maintaining the desired temperature


remember for the radiator to cool the coolant it needs one thing air but what differ is how the air is being delivered to it, it either by the movement of the car 15/20 mph speed or by the fan running so with or without a double cell radiator if any of the two delivery system are not effiecent coolant wont be cooled in enough and when the thermostat opens the coolant from the radiator would be still hot therefore engine temperature remains high

California is 3 times hotter than Nigeria.
Why do we still have thermostats on our cars ??

The problem with Africans is that they can't manufacture shiit & when a set of white engineers succeeds in manufacturing some damn cars, Africans will like to Customize/tropicalize some shiit they don't know how it was manufactured.

@ OP.
Thunder fire you 6 times
Fool

[size=16pt]I had this problem. It happened in one crazy traffic, my radiator just busted open and the water escaped.

My mechanic sealed my radiator. Reset the engine, and my car started again.

1 week later, the heat meter started reading to red (meaning its over heating)

I called another mechanic who recommended I should buy a double cell radiator.

he removed the thermostat.

My car is working fine now.

However, he said I should not use AC for now, that I should change my radiator fan. he claimed the radiator fan is not strong enough.

How true is this?

And also, I noticed that my engine is now high. Why is this? Is any harm in this?

I love this thread. Its about my car.[/size]

THE REASON IS BEACAUSE YOU DID NOT BUY A GOOD TOKUNBO CAR.

dammytosh:
THE REASON IS BEACAUSE YOU DID NOT BUY A GOOD TOKUNBO CAR.

Dumb!

Cooling system: this is mostly left untouched, though the thermostat in the engine bay could be set to activate the fans/water pumps at a lower temperature than that abroad seeing that we do not need a long warming up period after cold starts, and our warm weather means our engines heat up faster in use than in cold weather.

tonychristopher:


What is the function of thermostat in a car ....tell us before we argue the relevancy or don't you believe it tropicalization

You made major misconceptions on how the thermostat operates in relationship with the cooling fan.

In fact, the thermostat has no direct or indirect connection to the cooling fans especially the electrical ones. You should know that the thermostat is completely a mechanical device while the electric cooling fan is an electromechanical device. There is no physical connection by switch or wire between them. Therefore, the thermostat does not control the function of the cooling fan.

The cooling fan is controlled by coolant temperature sensor, ECU, Relay in that communication order. The temp sensor sends the correct temperature of the coolant to the ECU which has a preset temp if reach triggers the relay to switch on the fans. After which the temp drops to acceptable zone the the ECU communicates the relay to stop. The process happens intermittently as temp fluctuates due to many factors such as engine load, speed (related to amount of air cooling), ambient temperature etc non of which relates to thermostat but depending on the coolant temp sensor. Note that both could be housed in the same location in the system but independent of each other.

On the functions of the thermostat, you have been answered.

dammytosh:
THE REASON IS BEACAUSE YOU DID NOT BUY A GOOD TOKUNBO CAR.

wHAT happens to new cars over-heating? Leaner!

proxillin:
[size=16pt]I had this problem. It happened in one crazy traffic, my radiator just busted open and the water escaped.

My mechanic sealed my radiator. Reset the engine, and my car started again.

1 week later, the heat meter started reading to red (meaning its over heating)

I called another mechanic who recommended I should buy a double cell radiator.

he removed the thermostat.

My car is working fine now.

However, he said I should not use AC for now, that I should change my radiator fan. he claimed the radiator fan is not strong enough.

How true is this?

And also, I noticed that my engine is now high. Why is this? Is any harm in this?

I love this thread. Its about my car.[/size]

when your radaitor burst, you meant to do a pressure test after mending it then also bleed the system to take of air bubbles aslong there is air bubbles in the cooling system the car overheats your did either the mending was not done properly or the system was never bleed

since the thermo was removed your car is running cold

Run your ac as normal dont change the fan

as for engine being HIGH i dont know what you mean